Process of making medicaments containing plant-juice.



UNITED STATES Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OEEIcE.

MARIE RITTER, OF BRESLAU, GERMANY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,363, dated January31, 1905.

Application filed ZTovemher 14,1901. Serial No. 82,307.

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARIE RITTER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,residing at 4 Schillerstrasse, Breslau, in the Empire of Germany, haveinvented a certain new and useful Procedure for Preserving and Improvingthe Medical Power of Juices of Plants, of which the following is aspecification.

Numerous juices of plants have a strong influence upon the animal andhuman organism, specially by agitating the nerves of it, and they aretherefore used as meclicaments. The medical power, however, diminishesregularly if the juices are not utilized fresh and finishes oftenentirely after a proportionately short time.

This invention refers to a procedure to set aside this inconveniencefrom the sanative juices of plants and to preserve and improve thehealing power for a considerably long time.

The new procedure consists in adding to the juices of plants containingliving cells finelydivided light-bearers 6., particles which have thecapacity, if irradiated, to absorb ethereal vibrations, to keep them fora time, and to emit them again. Among such particles are well knownspecially the sulfids of barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium,potassium, and sodium; further, phosphorus and carbonate of lime aloneor in mixture with magnesia, manganese, bismuth, and numerous othersubstances. Such light-bearers are to be found as well in the ashes ofplants as in the seeds of plants, and with one preferred modification ofmy invention I add the necessary light-bearers to the juices of theplants in form of ashes of plants or flour made from seed of plants.

Performing my invention I proceed as follows: I grind well fresh-pluckedplants, so that they form a pap. Then I add to two hundred and fiftyparts of plants twenty-five parts of the ashes of the respective plantsand twenty-live parts of flour made from seed of the plants. Hereafterthe compound is for a time exposed to the power of sun-rays concentratedthrough a burning-lens. Then I fill up with distilled water and exposethe mixture again and continually to the sunrays. This done, I clear theliquid and join alcohol to it to keep it free from decomposing bacteriaand mildew.

The performance of the procedure'can be variously modified. Instead ofgrinding the plants alone I can grind them with lightbearers together orI can add concentrated juice of the plants to the light-bearers and usethe produced compound either direct or after composition with water andalcohol. Instead of sunlight I can adopt other sorts of light forinstance, electric light and other sorts of rays. It is not alwaysnecessary to concentrate the sun-rays through a burninglens, especiallyin those cases where products of less efficiency are desired.

As the different light-bearers emit vibrations of different wave lengthsand of different intensity, I can strengthen the operation of thelight-bearers added to the plant-juices if I at same time undermixseveral light-bearers; so, 6. 9., I can add to the juices of plants,besides of plant-ashes which contain potassium and sodium salts, calciumsulfid and magnesia.

The preparations of plants which form the object of my invention have,in consequence of the admixed light bearers, the property to radiatelonger or shorter time in the dark after having been exposed toradiation by light or other rays.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the saidinvention and in What manner the same is to be performed, I declare thatwhat I claim is 1. The process of making amedicament containingplant-juice which consists in separating juices from plants containingliving cells, at ordinary or low temperature, and mixing the same Withfinely-divided particles which are capable of absorbing rays andemitting them again in a dark room, for substantially the purposes setforth.

2. The process of making a medicament containing plant-juice, whichconsists in separating juices from fresh-plucked plants containingliving cells, at ordinary or low temperature, and mixing the same withfinelydivided particles which are capable of absorbing rays and emittingthem again in a dark room, for substantially the purposes set forth.

3. The process substantially as herein described for making a medicamentcontaining plant-juice, which consists in powdering particles capable ofabsorbing rays and emitting them again in a dark room, exposing saidparticles to the radiation of rays, and then adding them to a mixturecontaining plant-juice.

4:. The process substantially as herein described for making amedicament containing plant-juice, which consists in adding plantashesto a compound containing plant-juice.

5. The process of making a medicament containing plant-juice, whichconsists in adding plant-ashes, to a compound containing juices of thesame kind of plant as that from which the plant-ashes have been formedand then adding water to the said compound, for substantially thepurposes set forth.

6. The process substantially as herein described of making a medicamentcontaining plant-juice, which consists in preparing particles capable ofabsorbing rays and emitting them again in a dark room, exposing saidparticles to the radiation of rays, mixing said particles with juices ofplants containing living cells, adding water to the compound, and againexposing the liquid to the radiation of rays.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARIE BITTER.

Witnesses:

HERMANN BARTSGH, ALBERT ScHENx.

